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The Politics of Information in Early Modern Europe
First attempt to bring together a range of research on the origins of news publishing Provides a broad-ranging, comprehensive survey High quality contributors with very good publishing record
The Business of News
In the seventeenth century news was an investment in social relationships, a resource that concerned the interests of members of functional elites. Exchanging news entailed different forms of participation in functional elites and, thus, privilege. This business was part of the elites’ internal social structures; it constituted the fabric of all public institutions. This book questions notions of a print-based public sphere in the seventeenth century. It is based on contemporary tracts on newspapers, the court culture, and letter-writers, as well as news correspondences and other material from archives in the Baltic Sea Region and beyond. This book is a translation of: Das Geschäft mit Nachrichten: Ein barocker Markt für soziale Ressourcen (Bremen: edition lumière, 2018).
The Oxford Handbook of Thomas More's Utopia
Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most iconic, translated, and influential texts of the European Renaissance. This Handbook of specially commissioned and original essays brings together for the first time three different ways of thinking about the book: in terms of its renaissance contexts, its vernacular translations, and its utopian legacies. It has been developed to allow readers to consider these different facets of Utopia in relation to each other and to provide fresh and original contributions to our understanding of the book's creation, vernacularization, and afterlives. In so doing, it provides an integrated overview of More's text, as well as new contributions to the range of schol...
The Reception of English Puritan Literature in Germany
This is the first study to demonstrate the impact of Puritan literature on the development of German language and literature in the seventeenth century and beyond. It crosses the boundaries of theology, literature, and the English and German traditions to show that eighteenth-century secular thinking on introspection, psychology and subjectivity has its roots in vocabulary used in Germany as early as 1665 through the translation of figures such as Daniel Dyke and Richard Baxter. The book concludes with insights on John Bunyan, whose works inspired writers of the Geniegeneration such as Lenz, Wieland, Moritz and Jung Stilling.
Thomas More's Utopia in Early Modern Europe
This book provides the first complete account of all the editions of Utopia, whether vernacular or Latin, printed before 1650, together with a transcription of all the prefatory materials they contain. The reception of the idea of Utopia in early modern Europe has been studied extensively before: what has been lacking is a composite picture of how Utopia moved by means of translation from culture to culture and of the ways in which particular versions offered themselves to their readers. Part I consists of a series of chapters which provide a contextual and interpretative framework for each national group of translations; in Part II, the substantive paratexts of all the extant translations o...
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Idealstaat und Anthropologie
Als in der deutschen Spätaufklärung ›Anthropologie‹ und Ästhetik eine enge Allianz eingehen, stürzt dies eine alte Gattung in die Krise, die nun zum anti-anthropologischen Textmuster schlechthin avanciert: die ›literarische Utopie‹. Fiktionale Texte über Gesellschaften vernunftautonomer Individuen widersprechen jenem neuen Menschenbild, das die Macht körperlicher Konditionen über das Denken und Handeln betont. Gerade wegen ihres zweifelhaften Rufs bietet die ›literarische Utopie‹ aber zugleich Gelegenheit, die ›Anthropologie‹ als problematischen und politisch brisanten Wissensbestand zu reflektieren, hinter dem die Nihilismusgefahr wie ein Gespenst lauert. Untersucht wird daher, wie Autoren der selbstreflexiven Aufklärung und Frühromantik mit diesem Textmuster auf die ›Rehabilitation der Sinnlichkeit‹ und die dadurch verursachten ethischen, theologischen, politischen und ästhetischen Probleme reagieren. Literaturhistorisch diskutiert die Studie am Fall einer Gattung Kontinuitäten und Diskontinuitäten zwischen Spätaufklärung und Frühromantik, systematisch zielt sie auf eine Modellierung von Literatur- und Gattungsgeschichte als Problemgeschichte.
